Emrich Schonleber, Monzinger Fruhlingsplatzchen Riesling GG other_regions_italy various red berries and plenty

various red berries and plenty of Vosne-style spice

This is a wonderfully impressive wine that has the touch of youthful austerity that Champans always seems to display

(67% whole clusters)

The palate is slow to unfold

intensely flavored and medium-sweet

Emrich Schonleber, Monzinger Fruhlingsplatzchen Riesling GG other_regions_italy various red berries and plentyIn describing this bottlings 2016 predecessor I led with the following, Even more effusively floral than its Frhtau counterpart, this offers iris, violets and lily of the valley. That description holds as well for this 2017, where those characteristics also translate into musky, bittersweet inner mouth perfumes. There are the lusciously juicy white peach and subtly green, clover chomping counterpoint familiar from this years Frhtau, now in the context